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House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/7-HOU/7/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1911 - 1981
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys, living in Junior House/Chapmans since its inception. The bulk of the collection gathers photographs from the 1950s to 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Johnsons house

A collection of documents, chiefly photographs, of the day house Johnsons.
In 1972, the first purpose-built house for Day boys emerged to the west of the Ashburton Dining Hall. It was made of a large assembly hall-cum-classrooms, a study for the Housemaster, changing rooms with showers and a series of studies for the boys. It came into use in Spring term 1972. In 1973, the Day girls of Talbots House moved in upstairs of the Johnsons Day boys.

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College House (Old Sanatorium)

A collection of photographs and art work of College House, formerly the Old Vicarage, which was the Sanatorium before becoming the first girls' boarding house in 1971. Also contains a large file on the architecture and history of the building.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Chapel Close and Main Entrance

This sub-series focuses on Chapel Close, including the Reception building and the School's main entrance through Market Place and the Buttercross.

Oakham School

Design & Technology and Art centre

A collection of photographs and other documents relating to the history of the Art and Design buildings. On 25th April 2009, the Jerwood School of Design was officially opened, even though it had been in use since September 2008 by teachers and pupils. It was built on the site of maintenance yard garages, adjacent to the Sports Hall.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/1-HOU/1/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1960 - 1971
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys, then girls, living in College House in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Ashburton building (Haywood building)

This sub-series focusses on the Ashburton building, formerly the Haywood building.
Colonel Thomas Haywood, Chairman of the Trustees, laid the foundation stone of a new building, which was to bear his name, on 13th June 1964. The architects of this new academic building were F.J. Lenton & Partners. It came to use in September 1965 and was officially opened by Group Captain Douglas Bader. It housed the Geography and Modern Languages Departments. It comprised nine classrooms and the Jerwood Hall in the basement, which was equipped as a lecture hall, cinema and television room. In 1978, a new extension to the Haywood Building saw the addition of six classrooms and ancillary rooms to the Modern Languages, Geography and Audio Visual Aids Departments. The Haywood building on Church Street was extended in 1984. It was renamed 'Ashburton' in 1989 and now houses the Modern Foreign Languages and Classics departments.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

Cricket pavilions

A collection of documents, including photographs and commemorative plaques, relating to the School's cricket pavilions on Doncaster Close since the 19th century.

L.R. Shipsides

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